Category: Gaming

It seems Valve has placed new restrictions concerning gifted Steam games which forbid the games to be played outside the country they were bought on. According to a rather lengthy Reddit discussion, this restriction is active since December 2014, when Valve placed limits to gifts between different regions.

After a few days of hard-earned vacation, Digital Lair is back with your daily dosage of news. First stop: Blizzard – the behemoth behind franchises like Diablo, Starcraft and of course Warcraft had some good news for Diablo III users.

Some of you might remember a time when first-person shooters were the pinnacle of PC gaming, and John Romero was at the center of that for quite some time. He co-created Doom at id Software, and then went off to make, what he thought was going to be a big hit, Daikatana all the way back in 2000. Well, Romero is back, and he’s teasing that he is working on another shooter.

Valve, the company we all love to hate because of Half Life 3, has been talking about a new version of its 3D engine for quite some time. It seems that they finally launched it – but didn’t tell anyone about it.

Firefly holds a dear place in every sci-fi fan’s heart after all these years; and we were thrilled last year when at San Diego’s Comic-Con, it was announced that a new game called Firefly Online. This year brought some more excellent news.

Settlers of Catan is one of the best board games around, and it’s pretty popular. As far as electronic versions of the game are concerned, you have an Android version, an iOS version, but the rest were out of luck – until now.